According to a new report from Business Insider, Twitter's latest acquistion is Bluefin Labs, a social entertainment analyitics group with deep roots as a big data project at MIT. Business Insider's sources suggest that the buy would be Twitter's biggest to date, putting it potentially well above the $40 million the social network paid for Twitter client Tweetdeck back in 2011. We've reached out to both Bluefin and Twitter for confirmation of the acquisition.

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